Eight trends to look for in 2010
Given the tumultuous events of 2009, it’s easy to forget the world didn’t come to a standstill. Life continued and Silicon Valley kept innovating. 2010 hopefully won’t be as tumultuous, but should be exciting. Here are predictions on eight trends that will surface next year:
Corporations will deploy technology for advantage, not cost: As the economy recovers, organizations will – for the first time in nearly a decade – look to information technology as a means of gaining competitive advantage as opposed to a means for simply reducing cost.
Social networking will divide: People will settle into a pattern of using different social networking platforms for different purposes.
Cloud computing hype will peak: Passing Gartner’s “peak of inflated expectations,” Cloud Computing will begin to dive into the “trough of disillusionment.”
The database market siege will build: The attack against the once-sleepy $15B market controlled by Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft will continue to build. While Oracle will reluctantly honor its MySQL promises for the European Union, Postgres will gain momentum among those worried about MySQL’s mid-term future.
Google will show signs of weakness in search: As spammers gain ground in the cat-and-mouse game of search engine optimization, it will continue to get harder and harder to, for example, find a dishwasher on Google.
The XML silent revolution will continue: Without a shot fired, XML may well take over as the principal underlying file format both within the enterprise and across the Internet.
Mobility will take off – further: With the combination of new devices, higher-speed mobile networks and new location-aware technology, mobile applications will continue their ascent next year.
Regardless of how these 2010 predictions play out we know one thing is certain: The tech industry will always bring challenges to the status quo. Read full story:
